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Preventing cancer seems like a fool's based on my understanding of the disease. You have cancerous cells in your body every single day. Your immune system kills
by kulahan 3y ago
Preventing cancer seems like a fool's based on my understanding of the disease. You have cancerous cells in your body every single day. Your immune system kills them all off. It's like saying you want to prevent all bacteria from entering your body. It's just not realistic (at least, not right now).
- foobiekr 3y agoReplying to a post noting a 90% reduction in cancer thanks to the HPV vaccine with "preventing cancer seems like a fool's errand" is pretty amazing. Would you care to expand on that?
- kulahan 3y agoHPV is a carrier disease for one strain of cancer. Cancer is a type of disease - as said elsewhere, it's like saying "I found a cure for virus".
- inglor_cz 3y agoMaybe the OP meant "prevention" in the sense of "improving your immune system so much that cancer never manifests as a disease".
- foobiekr 3y agoHPV causes cancer. The prevention here is literal - by preventing infection from the oncogenic HPV variants there is no cancer.
- tyingq 3y agoHe gave a couple of examples. Another one is aggressively treating GERD so that it doesn't devolve into various conditions that lead to stomach or esophageal cancer. It's possible something like this could treat pre-cancerous things too, like Barrett’s esophagus.